Costume designer, fashion editor, filmmaker, screenwriter, and caricaturist who entered the world of clothing design and fashion journalism.
In 1929, at the age of 34 years, old she became the fashion editor for Fox Movietone News. In 1938, she began writing her "Fashion Forecast" series that was filmed in Technicolor with each item running for about eleven minutes and narrated by Ilka Chase.
Later, Donner designed the sets and costumes for each of her own fashion shows, carefully selecting models from theater, night clubs, schools and colleges, not agencies alone. She also was a commentator on the Movietone Newsreels during the 1930s
